Revised 2010-07-12
1 pm: Moderate breezes and fair out all reefs & set steering sails
4 pm: Saw some Egg-birds, a Tropic Bird with a red tail and a brown Sheerwater
7 pm: Light Airs worked the Pumps as usual – In Larboard steering sails – Moderate breezes of air.
10 pm: At 10 cloudy
12 mid: Fair weather
2 am: Strong breezes and clear weather in steering sails & 1st reef Top Sails
4 am: Shortened sail occasionally for ye Assistant
5 am: Moderate breezes made all sail
7 am: Portable Soup Gruel for breakfast
8 am: Cleaned below, and spread the Quarter Deck Awnings. Saw two Tropic, and one Egg-bird. Captain Bligh read Prayers as usual on Sundays, to the People, after having Mustered them in Divisions – Served Krout Wort and Bore Cole in the Pease soup for Dinner
12 noon: At Noon Moderate breezes and fair. Assistant in company – Broached a Puncheon of Spruce Beer
for the People
Latitude Observed 29°:01′ South